Lost in America

The National Book Award-winning author of How We Die presents another poignant, intelligent narrative humanity's remarkable ability to endure. Lost in America is a touching account of Nuland's family history, and it focuses largely on the author's father, Meyer Nudelman, a Jewish immigrant who arrived in America during the early part of the 20th century. Bringing the crowded tenements of New...

Finding the father inside

Sherwin Nuland recalls his "ambivalent heritage" Throughout his childhood in the 1930s and '40s, Sherwin Nuland viewed his immigrant father through a prism of fear and embarrassment. Meyer Nudelman was never a violent man, according to his son, but he did have an unpredictable and volcanic temper that withered anyone in its path. Moreover, he suffered from a progressively crippling disease...